International Dissertation Enhancement: Interactive Effects of Harvest, Grazing and Fire on Plant Populations and Communities in the Western Ghats, India.

国际论文增强：印度西高止山脉收获、放牧和火灾对植物种群和群落的交互影响。

• 批准号: 1104989
• 负责人: Tamara Ticktin
• 金额: $ 0.51万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-05-01 至 2014-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1104989&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: International; Dissertation; Enhancement; Interactive; Effects

01104989Ticktin/Lisa MandleThis Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement award provides funding for a final trip to India for coPI Mandle to carry out a suite of additional field measurements for her dissertation research. The focus of the study is the interactive effects of harvest, grazing, and fire on the population dynamics of a harvested palm in a prime biodiversity site in India?s Western Ghats, where human activities strongly impact native plant communities. Although a number of studies of demographic effects of palm leaf-harvest have been done previously, this study breaks new intellectual ground through the application of new statistical population modeling techniques. The combination of multi-site comparative studies with explicit experimental studies will strengthen the coPI?s thesis. Research focused at the nexus between native plant populations and human activities is especially valuable in tropical sites such as the Western Ghats. What is learned in this project could potentially be both practically-applicable locally and a model approach for such research at many types of sites, particularly in the tropics. The broader impacts of this project are strong with respect to the level of cross-interaction between countries, the incorporation of Indian colleagues and local people in the field, as well as its potential to develop new modeling and experimental approaches for plant conservation efforts in the face of significant on-going human activities. This enhancement provides additional funding for international research to a current NSF Graduate Research Fellowship awardee.

01104989Ticktin/Lisa Mandle 这项博士论文增强奖为 coPI Mandle 的最后一次印度之旅提供资金，以便为她的论文研究进行一系列额外的现场测量。 该研究的重点是收获、放牧和火灾对印度西高止山脉主要生物多样性地点的收获棕榈种群动态的相互作用影响，那里的人类活动强烈影响当地植物群落。尽管之前已经进行了许多关于棕榈叶收获对人口影响的研究，但这项研究通过应用新的统计人口建模技术开辟了新的知识基础。 多地点比较研究与明确实验研究的结合将加强 coPI 的论文。 专注于本地植物种群与人类活动之间关系的研究在西高止山脉等热带地区尤其有价值。在这个项目中学到的东西可能既可以在当地实际应用，也可以作为在许多类型的地点（特别是热带地区）进行此类研究的模型方法。该项目的更广泛影响是强大的，包括国家之间的交叉互动水平、印度同事和当地人在该领域的参与，以及面对持续不断的重大人类活动，为植物保护工作开发新模型和实验方法的潜力。 这一增强功能为当前的 NSF 研究生研究奖学金获得者提供了额外的国际研究资金。